Pastor Brian from the presbyterian church opened with prayer...Pastor Dan from the community church led us in songs of worship...
Pastor Mike from foots creek chapel took an offering for the pregnancy care center...
Robin from the PCC shared her testimony...
My Parents sang "when He was on the cross I was on his mind"...
and
My Sermon Notes:
I always start my sermons with something funny…
A man feared his wife was not hearing as well as she used to, and he thought she might need a hearing aid. Not quite sure how to approach her, he called the family doctor to discuss the problem. The doctor told him there is a simple informal test the husband could perform to give the doctor a better idea about her hearing loss.
“Here’s what you do,” said the doctor. “Stand about 40 feet away from her and in a normal conversational speaking tone see if she hears you. If not, go to 30 feet, then 20 feet, and so on until you get a response.”
That evening, the wife is in the kitchen cooking dinner, and he was in the den. He thought to himself, “I’m about 40 feet away. Let’s see what happens.” In a normal tone he asks, “Honey, what’s for dinner?” No response.
So the husband moves closer to the kitchen, about 30 feet from his wife, and repeats, “Honey, what’s for dinner?” Still no response.
Next he moves into the dining room where he is about 20 feet from his wife and asks, “Honey, what’s for dinner?” Again, no response.So, he walks up to the kitchen door, about 10 feet away. “Honey, what’s for dinner?” Again, there is no response.
So he walks right up behind her. “Honey, what’s for dinner?”
“BOB, for the 5th time, WE’RE HAVING CHICKEN!”
So, everybody clear the goo from your neighbors ear
Let’s spend a few minutes being challenged by God’s Word
When I was asked to speak for the community Sunrise Service, I asked for some time to pray about it before I said yes…When I asked the LORD for direction…Romans 8:11 began to burn in my heart…so I quickly answered yes to the call…
Some consider the numerous Bible translations of our day confusing…
I look at it as a wonderful tool, enriching study…
The original texts are so rich, some things may be lost in meaning during translation…
So I enjoy the comparing and contrasting of different translations to never miss the deep rich meaning of the text…
Because I am no Hebrew and greek scholar…
For that you would have to sit under Pastor Brian or Dan, maybe even Mike…
Romans 8:11 (Amplified Bible)
11And if the Spirit of Him Who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, [then] He Who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also restore to life your mortal (short-lived, perishable) bodies through His Spirit Who dwells in you.
Romans 8:11 (New Life Version)
11 The Holy Spirit raised Jesus from the dead. If the same Holy Spirit lives in you, He will give life to your bodies in the same way.
Romans 8:11 (The Message)
9-11But if God himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won't know what we're talking about. But for you who welcome him, in whom he dwells—even though you still experience all the limitations of sin—you yourself experience life on God's terms. It stands to reason, doesn't it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he'll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ's!
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Romans 8
Life Through the Spirit
1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,[a] 2because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. 3For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature,[b] God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering.[c] And so he condemned sin in sinful man,[d] 4in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.
5Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6The mind of sinful man[e] is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; 7the sinful mind[f] is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. 8Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God.
9You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. 10But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. 11And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.
If I dig very deep into the work of the Holy Spirit
We may come across some issues we disagree on
But I’m pretty sure we all agree none of us would be a believer today if it weren’t for The Spirit drawing men to salvation!
When we believe on the Lord Jesus we begin this amazing journey of being filled with the Spirit of the living God
And everyday we walk in the Spirit finding deeper dimensions of a Holy God
If that same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead lives in you, watch out…He’s quickening your mortal body for a life of abundant living
Ok I don’t want to start sounding like a tv evangelist
or a crazy Pentecostal
ya’ll might never let me share at a community event again
Sillyness aside
This Easter Sunday Morning I think the Lord has three questions to ask of us from this passage in Romans 8?
(trying to be a good preacher and have my 3 points)
1. Are you living in condemnation?
(condemning yourself, condemning others, conviction of the Spirit vs. condemnation)
John 3:16,17…(funerals, witnessing)
2. What is your mind set on?
Battlefield of the mind
WHATEVER (series: phil 4:8)
true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent
3. Who or what do you belong to? Who or what are you controlled by?
Do you know what it’s like to be quickened by the Spirit?
Allowing him to comfort counsel guide
Or are you controlled by circumstances or habits
What do you turn to when things get hard
Cookies or God?
I think the Living Christ, Our Father in Heaven, the gentle Spirit is worth belonging to, worth being controlled by
much better than any addiction or habit here on earth
Hello' that same power that raised Christ is available for us…
This easter revel in Romans 8
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